The comments of David Marjanović to one my last posts ( Please stop using cladograms! ), kept me musing about an old question of mine: Why...

Phylogenetic analysis involves describing patterns, not studying processes. That is, we cannot conduct a manipulative experiment to study e...

In a comment on last week's post ( Capturing phylogenetic algorithms for linguistics ), Mattis noted that linguists are often concerned...

A couple of years ago, I noted that genomic datasets have not helped resolve the phylogeny at the root of the placentals, because each new ...

The usual argument in favour of using phylogenetic networks is the obvious one that they can account for gene flow during phylogenetic hist...

Genotypes or phenotypes? In a blogpost from 2013 , David investigated some of the popular analogies between anthropology (including lin...

I have noted several times in this blog that it is not just biological organisms that can be considered to have a phylogenetic history. Man...

What is a language? It is not easy to define exactly, what a language is . We find one reason for this in the daily use of the word “lan...

There are at least two misleading expressions that one very commonly encounters in the professional phylogenetics literature: "basal b...

This is a guest blog post, following on from his previous post , by: Johann-Mattis List Centre des Recherches Linguistiques sur l'As...